This study investigated the impact of COVID-19 on educational planning in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Adopted for this study was descriptive survey research design by the researchers. The population of the study comprised all educational planners in federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The sample for the study was 120 educational planners selected from 10 educational institutions handling planning of education in the Territory. The sample was drawn through randomly and proportionate random sampling techniques. The researchers used self-developed instrument. A four point adapted Likert-scale of measurement was used thus: Strongly agree (SA), agree (SA), disagree (D), strongly disagree (SD). The reliability of the instrument was established through test-retest method. The responses of the respondents were presented in simple statistical table and analysed using Mean (x̅) and Standard Deviation. In taking decision on the research questions, mean scores for 2.50 and above were deemed as agreed, accepted or positive while those below 2.50 were regarded as negative and unaccepted/disagreed responses. The result obtained shows that Covid-19 have affected educational planning in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, planning hours were affected as a result of early closure of educational institutions across the Nation, majority of planners in Nigeria lack e-planning facilities to enable planners interact with their collogues and continue with planning processes during COVID-19, educational data on schools were unable to access it as a result of close down and poor implementation of planned programme could be attributed to covid-19 school closure/lockdown.

This study investigated the challenges facing the collection and distribution of educational data in F.C.T Educational institutions, Abuja, Nigeria. The researchers used descriptive research survey design for the study. The study comprised a population of one hundred and twenty (120) respondents which made up of data collection officers in the selected educational institutions across the FCT. Ten (10) data collection officers from each area council and ten (10) data collection officers from six departments/agencies/units within the ministries of education in Abuja were used in the study. Purposive, Stratified and systematic sampling technique was used to select the sample population from the educational institutions across Abuja. The reliability of the instrument was determined through the test re-test method. Data was collected by questionnaire and were analyzed using percentage and chi-square. The study led to the conclusion that inadequate funding,  shortage of professional data collection officers, inadequate working materials, institutional corruption, poor capacity development programme of data collection officers, poor methods and approaches used for collecting data, poor supervision and inspection and political influence are the problems hindering effective data collection and distribution in educational institutions. The study also established that there is significant relationship between challenges and collection and distribution of educational data in schools. Based on this finding, the following were recommended: that the federal, state and local government should increase the funding of education and more priority should be given to data collection and distribution funding and the government at every level in FCT should employ more data collection officers and deploy them to the primary and secondary schools in FCT.

colleagues raise the question of whether smoking could account for the lower bone density in women using depot medroxyprogesterone.4 We agree that smoking is a potential confounder and discussed this in our earlier publication.3 We are puzzled by Sharma and colleagues' reference to the two groups in our recent study. There were three groups. The control subjects certainly smoked less than the women who used depot medroxyprogesterone, but the proportion of women smoking was the same in those who continued to use depot medroxyprogesterone and those who stopped using it. Bone density increased only in those who stopped using the contraceptive. Finally, we note Sharma and colleagues' (unreferenced) assertion that measurements of the bone density of the femoral neck and wrist by dual energy x ray absorptiometry might be more accurate and reliable than measurements of the bone density of the spine. This is contrary to our experience and to most published data. We believe that the reason we saw greater changes in the spine than the hip is that the spine contains a larger proportion of trabecular bone and is more sensitive to oestrogen.

This paper examines the challenges facing the implementation of educational policies in Nigeria. Secondary data were used in the papers. The secondary data were sourced from print materials and online journal and articles. The paper identified inadequate funding, inadequate infrastructural facilities, inadequate professional teachers, institutional corruption, lack of political will, insecurity challenge, lack of continuity in commitment to policy implementation, political instability, poor policy formulation, poor relationship between policy designer and policy implementer as challenges preventing effective implementation of educational policies in Nigeria. To address these challenges, the papers recommends the following; adequate funding of education, provision of adequate infrastructural facilities, fight institutional corruption, ensure adequate security in educational institutions, political officeholders should have positive political will towards implementation of educational policies, employment of more professional teachers, positive relationship between policy designers and policy implementer and political officeholders should have political will to continue with educational policies.